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The case against Makefiles
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this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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What breaks with npm in your case? In my experience it's been the rarest system to fail, like I can git clone something from 10 years ago, run
npm iand the resulting app still builds and runs, despite a ton of announcements about deprecated libraries and update requests for vulnerability fixes.